User login

Visitors Profile

Registered Users: 5221

Last Registered User: Jitu9889

Your IP: 46.229.168.84

Package of Practices

A compendium of state specific and location specific recommended package of practices are provided under this head. You may be interested to see that, thanks to our IP based customisation, that only your state (the state from where you are accessing RKMP) specific information is available.

You are on travel? Please select the state to which you belong. You have access to your state specific content as well.

Look for the related information heads on right side box. Click on any of them to get the access to the appropriate information.

ZTDSR lowers production costs due to lack of any kind of land preparation;
• Timely sowing of rice can be done;
• Promising technology under less rainfall situation, if prevails during crop growth period;
• ZT crop suffers less transplantation shock;
• The crop matures 8-10 days earlier;
• It experiences less weed pressure due to herbicide use;
• Savings in irrigation water use & seed; Savings in Labour & Time; Savings in Fuel;
• Maintains soil health
• There is an improved productivity as well as profit

Before proceeding to the package of practices in Zero Tillage, let us understand what is Zero Tillage?
• Zero tillage (ZT) implies planting crops in previously unprepared soil. It is also known as zero till, no till or direct planting/ sowing.
• Zero Tillage technology in direct seeded rice (DSR) excludes any sorts of tillage operation.
• Zero tillage in rice-wheat systems ranges from surface seeding to planting with seed drills drawn by four-wheel tractors.

As crop management in the field is very important, similarly grain storage after harvesting is equally important.
• Rice is to be stored as unmilled paddy.
• Grain moisture level is to be brought down to 12-14%.
• A suitable storage structure (metallic/ non- metallic), which is fairly air tight, is to be selected, depending on quantity of grain to be stored.
• The storage structure is to be disinfested with malathion 50 EC (1:100 dilution) @ 3 l of spray emulsion per 100 sqm. before filling in with grains.
• If old empty gunny bags are to be reused, such bags are to be either treated with malathion or immersed in boiling water for 15-20 minutes & dried.
• The bags are to be stacked in systematic way on proper dunnage either wooden crates or on a foot thick layer of husk or straw, away from the walls.

Harvesting of the crop in the field followed by threshing:
• Water is to be drained out from the field when grains in the lowest portion of the panicle are in the dough stage (about 20 days from 50% flowering).
• The grains are to be allowed to harden.
• Harvesting is to be done at 30-35 days after flowering when stalks still remain green to avoid grain shedding.
• Moisture content of paddy should be 20-24% at harvest.
• Threshing is to be done as early as possible preferably a day after harvest.
• Drying is to be gradually done under shade until the moisture content is brought down to 12-14%, which ensures better milling quality and storage.